Jonathan Bratten

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6 Apr

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Commanders: The Best of the Rest · 6 Apr 2026 podcast

That's where all the attention grabbing headlines are.

So, yeah, you've got guys like Eichelberger and Kruger who are just hanging out in the Pacific, doing a great job, but never getting the recognition that they truly deserve.

Absolutely.

I mean, he's another person who's critical to the Southwest Pacific campaign, who also is often overshadowed by MacArthur as he's sort of the naval component in that joint command through the Southwest Pacific.

But unlike everybody else, Halsey has no problem capturing his spotlights.

He is brusque, he is profane, he's got the one-liners, he's got the cigar chopping.

He looks the part.

He looks the part, right?

And that's absolutely critical.

He is...

Very aggressive, you know, where I mentioned Kruger is sort of a little bit more conservative, wanting to take more time to be deliberate.

Halsey is not.

He is of the Stephen Decatur School of Naval Leadership, which is just sort of.

Not quite nevermind maneuvers and go straight at him, but it's pretty close.

Yeah, taking the carriers out of Pearl and then coming back in with them, realizing he's also one of these individuals who sees that the future of naval warfare isn't just the battleship.

He's able to think in a multidimensional way.

And now we go, yeah, duh, obviously carriers are very important.

But we have to remember, there's still an era of innovation with a lot of people wondering, all right, well, how central really, you know, 1941, 1942, how central really will carrier warfare be?

And when you put together something like a carrier task force,

combining sort of your surface warfare and your air warfare, then all of a sudden it's a sort of a whole new ballgame.

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